Diagnosing syntax

by Cheng, Lisa Lai Shen Corver, Norbert

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Full title :Diagnosing syntax / edited by Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng and Norbert Corver.

Summary

Diagnosis is an essential part of scientific research. It refers to the process of identifying a phenomenon, property, or condition on the basis of certain signs and by the use of various diagnostic procedures. This book is the first ever to consider the use of diagnostics in syntactic research and focuses on the five core domains of natural language syntax - ellipsis, agreement, anaphora, phrasal movement, and head movement. Each empirical domain is considered in turn from the perspectives of syntax, syntax at the interfaces, neuropsycholinguistics, and language diversity. Drawing on the expertise of 20 leading scholars and their empirically rich data, the book presents current thoughts on, and practical answers to, the question: What are the diagnostic signs, techniques and procedures that can be used to analyse natural language syntax? It will interest linguists, including formalists, typologists, psycholinguists and neurolinguists.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

Description:xvii, 596 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199602490, 0199602492, 9780199602506, 0199602506
oclc:ocn827841354
LC Classification:P291
Dewey Decimal:415

1. Syntactic Diagnostics in the Study of Human Language / Lisa Lai-shen Cheng and Norbert Corver -- pt. I HEAD MOVEMENT -- 2. Head Movement as a Phonological Operation / Christer Platzack -- 3. Getting Morphemes in Order: Merger, Affixation, and Head Movement / Heidi Harley -- 4. Verb Movement to C: From Agrammatic Aphasia to Syntactic Analysis / Naama Friedmann -- 5. In Defence of Head Movement: Evidence from Bantu / Jochen Zeller -- 6. Diagnosing Head Movement / Heidi Harley -- pt. II. PHRASAL MOVEMENT -- 7. Phrasal Movement and Its Discontents: Diseases and Diagnoses / David Pesetsky -- 8. Diagnosing Covert Movement: The Duke of York and Reconstruction / Winfried Lechner -- 9. Arguments for Long Distance Movement in Long Distance Questions in Child Language / Hamida Demirdache -- 10. Diagnosing Covert A-Movement / Maria Polinsky and Eric Potsdam -- 11. Diagnosing XP-Movement / Winfried Lechner -- pt. III. AGREEMENT -- 12. The Syntactic Relations behind Agreement / Sandra Chung.

Note continued: 13. Gender Confusion / Ora Matushansky -- 14. Agreement in the Production of Subject and Object Wh-Questions / Maria Teresa Guasti -- 15. Agreement Unified: Arabic / Jamal Ouhalla -- 16.…

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